Sunday, December 12, 2010

#FictionalConversations

Female A: “Why are you handing me a green dress and white-go-go boots?”
Male B: “We’re LARPing Power Puff Girls.  I’ve got three sales guys in chimp suits ready to be punched.”

Friday, November 05, 2010

from the back files: -tbstone head and a graveyard mind‏

From: UIM
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:39 AM
Subject: RE: excel spreadsheet - seemingly wrong symbols

When I got in this morning, the bogus symbols again had ISIN values.  I have blanked those ISIN values out again.
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From: {Cow-orker}
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:33 AM
Subject: RE: excel spreadsheet - seemingly wrong symbols

When _I_ woke up this morning, I had myself a beer.
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From: UIM
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 7:34 AM
Subject: RE: excel spreadsheet - seemingly wrong symbols

Well, the future roots are uncertain, and the end is always near.
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From: UIM
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:19 AM
Subject: derail -tbstone head and a graveyard mind

{Cow-orker} does make the excellent subtle point that most of my work-related e-mails take the general attitude of blues song, like:

“Boom Boom Boom Boom, gonna shoot book quotes right down.”

“Vendor files don’t do me no good.  Drop their bogus symbols, I wish they would.”

“Last night in the Ops Room, sitting round with my mates, I fixed daily futures charts, because settles came in late.  Now, weren’t that a man?”

“I write forty-seven miles of e-mails, wear a CAT-5 cable for a necktie.  Got a brand new house on the roadside made of discarded monitor boxes.”

-UIM

As Jedi RobMo said once, “Scuse me, while I kill this guy.”
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From: Frage
Sent:     Friday, November 05, 2010
Subject:               from the back files: -tbstone head and a graveyard mind
You rock.
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From:    UIM
Sent:     Friday, November 05, 2010 3:34 PM
To:          Frage
Subject:               from the back files: -tbstone head and a graveyard mind
Well, as Muddy Waters once sang, “I want you to rock me, baby, like my SQL database got no primary key.”
-UIM
Blues scholars were puzzled for years about the meaning of this.

Friday, October 29, 2010

from the back files: Halloween / Wrongness in Mah Brain

From: UIM
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:13 AM
To: Frage
Subject: RE: wrongness in mah brain

I smiled at {cow-orker} today, and asked, “Isn’t it a beautiful morning?”

He looked scared and baffled.

I said, “It’s my Halloween costume.  A cheerful, optimistic man, with a girlfriend.  No one will suspect it is me.”

Thursday, April 22, 2010

I always fear Take Your Children to Work Day

From: UIM
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:35 AM
Subject: I always fear Take Your Children to Work Day
I am always afraid that HR will tranq dart me, stick me in an observation room, and have you and Cletus (evil cop, slow cop) torture me to show the kids why they want to learn to control their tempers.

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From: EqSarDev
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:09 AM

We just show them archived security footage of past UIM incidents.